You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.
Salman RushdieI needed my stuff around me, and in that little cocoon I felt good, and I could work.
Salman RushdieIn the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
Salman RushdieI'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
Salman RushdieVery often in free speech cases you find yourself defending material that you personally detest, because of course it's no trick to defend the free speech of people you either agree with or who don't particularly upset you. It's when people really upset you that you discover if you believe in free speech or not.
Salman Rushdie